Hair band protector

ABSTRACT

A hair protector band in the form of a thin band wound in a circular path about itself to define a circular shape, the circuled band having clamping edges at one end of the band extending over and engaging the edges at the other end of the bank to hold said circular shape. The inside wall surface of the band is smooth for placing the circular formed band over a head of set hair, while the outside wall surface of the band is somewhat rougher to catch and hold the neck of a sweater, blouse or other garment on the outside of the band wall while the blouse, etc., and band is slipped over a person&#39;&#39;s head preventing the hair from being mussed while putting on the blouse.

United States Patent l [111 3,889,298 [4 1 June 17, 1975 Miska HAIR BANDYPROTECTOR [76] Inventor: Stefania Miska, 12349 S. Bishop,

Calumet Park, 111. 60643 [22] Filed: Apr. 29, 1974 [21] Appl. No.: 465,113

52] US. Cl. 2/174 l r 5 11 Int. Cl..., A42b 1/24 [58] Field of Search 2/174, 198, 197, 171. 207. 2/4

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,017,328 10/1935 Taylor 2/174 2,045,359 6/1936 2,432,767 12/1947 3.35l,073 11/1967 3,582,989 6/1971 Fasshender 2/4 Primary E.\'aminerRichard J. Scanlan, Jr. Assistant Examiner-Peter Nerbun Attorney, Agent, or F irm Richard J. Myers [57] ABSTRACT A hair protector band in the form of a thin band wound in a circular path about itself to define a circular shape, the circuled band having clamping edges at one end of the band extending over and engaging the edges at the other end of the bank to hold said circular shape. The inside wall surface of the band is smooth for placing the circular formed band over a head of set hair, while the outside wall surface of the band is somewhat rougher to catch and hold the neck of a sweater, blouse or other garment on the outside of the band wall while the blouse, etc., and band is v slipped over a persons head preventing the hair fro being mussed while putting on the blouse.

4 Claims, 4 Drawing Figures PAIENTEIJJUN 17 I975 FIG. 2

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1 HAIR BAND PROTECTOR This invention permits to the field of beauty Culture and more particularly refers to the care, maintenance and protection of a persons hair by hair protecting head pieces. J U

2. Description of the Prior Art Protection of the hairdo is particularly important where there are large bouffant hairdos, and similar hairdos that cost a good'deal of money to have prepared and which are easily disarrayed. Because of the large variety of sizes and shapes of hairdos, many of the caps presently on the market are greatly limited because they do not easily accommodate these changes in sizes and shapes. When placing a blouse, sweater, dress or other garment over the set hair of the head it is desirable that the clothing garment does not disturb or muss the coiffure. It is this that the invention accomplishes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is a general object of this invention to provide for a hair protector band particularly for coiffures where the user may use the band to slip a garment over the dressed hair on the head.

Another object of this invention is to provide for an adjustable circular band to protect the head of hair, regardless of the size of the head or the coiffure.

Still another object is to provide for a hair protector band that may be adjusted in a rimmed or annular pattern for placement about the head after a garment such as a sweater has been placed about the outer annular periphery and wherein the band may be placed in elongated flat strip form and readily and compactly stored in a closet or the like.

These and other objects, advantages and purposes will become apparent from reference to the following description, appended claims and attached drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a plan view of the hair protector band in the elongated or extended storage position;

FIG. 2 is an end view of the device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an elongated side elevational view of the device shown in FIG. 1; and

FIG. 4 is an elevational perspective view of the device shown in FIG. 1 and shown in the encircled rim band position about a persons head in dotted line with a sweater about the band in dotted line.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT With respect to the drawings, FIGS. 1 through 3, there is shown a hair protector band, preferably of plastic or the like, in the form of an elongated flexible thin edged strip, being an upright wall, which has an inner wall or head hair facing surface 4 that is relatively smooth so that the surface 4 will not snare or catch on the persons hair as the surface 4 slides or rubs against the outer periphery of the hair in aid of slipping a sweater over the head to be later explained. The band has an outer wall or garment engaging surface 6 that is rough or coarse or undulated so that the neck opening of sweater or other garment that is placed about the surface in gripping relation, to be later explained. The coarseness or undulations of the surface 6 are indicated by the reference character 8. The vertical extent of the band 2, as viewed in FIG. 1 is considerably greater than the width or cross section of the band 2 as seen in FIG. 2 and the horizontal length is considerably greater than the vertical height (see FIG. 1). The right end 10 of the strap or strip form of the band as shown in FIGS. 1-3 is provided with upper and lower clamping edges or channel members 12 and 14 extending outwardly of the outer surface. These channel members or tracks are attached to the outer lateral portions of the band, but the left portion 16 is void of such channel members and the central left end portion 18 of the band is provided with an aperture 20 for hanging on a hook in a clothes closet or the like in the extended or elongated position. Each channel member 12 or 14 is formed with a respective Y lateral edge of of the band and a transverse portion 22 and an end parallel 24. Thus the channels 12 and 14 hang over and are on the outside edge of the band when the band is in the circular condition of FIG. 4.

These channel members 12 and 14 clamp or clasp about the channel free edges 26 and 28 of the left end 16 of the band when the band is wound on itself into a circular form or position as seen in FIG. 4. The edges 26 and 28 are held within the clamping portions 12 and' 14 because the strap or band being flexible buckles and bows as the left end is inserted about the clamping portions of the right portion of the band insuring a snug clasping action of the ends of band 2 into the circular or cylindrical shape. The knurled or undulated outer surface 6 grasps and holds in place a sweater 30 or other garment that is slipped thereover as seen in dotted in FIG. 4. The entrapped sweater 30 and hair protector band 2 being interlocked together are slipped over the persons hair 32 as seen in dotted in FIG. 4. The sweater 30 is then pulled down against the friction of the knurled surface onto the neck and shoulders of the person and then the band is removed upwardly from the persons head leaving the coiffure or hair 32 of the persons head intact and unmussed. The circular shape of the band can be made smaller or larger to gently encircle any sized coiffured head by simply adjusting the edges 26, 28 with respect to channels 12, 14 which define an inwardly offset garment neck-band engaging area and provide abutment ridges above and below said area as best seen in FIG. 4 to prevent the garment from readily slipping off.

The outer surface of the band in order to catch the garment or the like thereon, can also have a series of bumps thereon while the channel members form outwardly projecting abutment ridges on the outer surface of the band and function to trap the stretched neck band of the garment such as a sweater or dress therebetween and prevent the garment from slipping off until forcibly tugged off by the user. The interlocking or clamping means can be a buckle and buckle catch or clasp arrangement like a belt buckle structure that holds up a pair of man s pants or a womans skirt.

The foregoing description and drawings merely explain and illustrate the invention and the invention is not limited thereto, except insofar as the appended claims are so limited, as those skilled in the art who have the disclosure before them will be able to make modifications and variations therein without departing from the scope of the invention.

What is claimed is:

1. A hair protector band comprising an elongated flat strip defining an upright wall of thin cross section, said 3 wall havinginner and outer wall surfaces, interlocking means located on the outside of said wall and at opposite end portions of the wall, said strip being encirclable upon itself to define a circle band position for encirclement about a head of hair of a user and said strip being extendable to an elongated length position for storage, said wall having a first upright wall surface on one side thereof and having a second upright surface on the other side thereof, said first wall surface in the circle band position being an inner wall surface for facing the hair and said second wall surface in the circle band position being an outer wall surface for embracement by a garment adapted to be sleeved-thereabout, said interlocking means coupling the opposite end portions of the strip in the circle band position, said interlocking means comprising channel means on the outside upper and lower edges at one end portion of the wall and said other end portion of the wall having upper and lower edges spaced apart to fit between said channel means, said channel means of said one end portion telescopingly receiving the upper and lower edges of the other end portion with attendant overlap of said one end portion by said other end portion, said inner wall surface being smooth and saidouter wall surface being rough, said smooth surface of said one end portion facing and opposing said rough-surface in the band position of the strip whereby said surfaces are readily slidable along each other accommodating unimpeded circumferential adjustments of the band. 7

2. The invention according to claim 1 and said channel means projecting outwardly of said outer surface and defining therebetween an annular garment necksurface being undulant. 

1. A hair protector band comprising an elongated flat strip defining an upright wall of thin cross section, said wall having inner and outer wall surfaces, interlocking means located on the outside of said wall and at opposite end portions of the wall, said strip being encirclable uPon itself to define a circle band position for encirclement about a head of hair of a user and said strip being extendable to an elongated length position for storage, said wall having a first upright wall surface on one side thereof and having a second upright surface on the other side thereof, said first wall surface in the circle band position being an inner wall surface for facing the hair and said second wall surface in the circle band position being an outer wall surface for embracement by a garment adapted to be sleeved thereabout, said interlocking means coupling the opposite end portions of the strip in the circle band position, said interlocking means comprising channel means on the outside upper and lower edges at one end portion of the wall and said other end portion of the wall having upper and lower edges spaced apart to fit between said channel means, said channel means of said one end portion telescopingly receiving the upper and lower edges of the other end portion with attendant overlap of said one end portion by said other end portion, said inner wall surface being smooth and said outer wall surface being rough, said smooth surface of said one end portion facing and opposing said rough surface in the band position of the strip whereby said surfaces are readily slidable along each other accommodating unimpeded circumferential adjustments of the band.
 2. The invention according to claim 1 and said channel means projecting outwardly of said outer surface and defining therebetween an annular garment neck-band-receiving area offset inwardly from said channel means, said channel means providing abutment ridges above and below said garment neck-band-receiving area resisting the garment from slipping off from the band during application thereof to the user''s head about the coiffure but permitting said garment to be stretched and pulled over said abutment ridges thereafter.
 3. The invention according to claim 2 and said outer wall surface being uneven to provide a friction area to aid clinging of the garment.
 4. The invention according to claim 2 and said outer surface being undulant. 